Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...other lands, where bread-eating peasants took a dimmer view of spuds, the rich and powerful attempted to overcome their prejudices. Frederick the Great sat on a balcony in Breslau and ate a mess of boiled potatoes in public, to prove to his Prussians that they were not poisonous. At the French court, Marie Antoinette, in the best 20th Century pressagent style, attended a potato banquet with potato blossoms decking her hair, to get Frenchmen to eat potatoes...
Radford admires Douglas MacArthur and sees eye-to-eye with him on most points of Pacific strategy, including the question of America's Pacific frontier. In their view, the frontier is a barrier from the foggy, smoking Aleutians on the north to the Philippines. Part of this line is Formosa (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR), the key to the Western Pacific. MacArthur, Radford and most Navy men believe that Formosa can and must be denied to the enemy, and therefore cheered President Truman's order to defend it. If Formosa is not held, the U.S. positions in Japan...
...York City was all set to start on its new $511,607,630 school-expansion program (TIME, July 31), but last week President Maximilian Moss of the Board of Education marched before the City Planning Commission with an afterthought. In view of the world situation, Moss said, the Board of Education recommended the construction of built-in atomic bomb shelters in each new school. Estimated extra cost: $50 million. The Planning Commission was thinking it over...
Like Hemingway, Colonel Cantwell was in the Italian army as a young man, was wounded, and was decorated by the Italian government. Like Hemingway, he has a game knee, loves Venice and Paris, was with the first troops to reach the French capital, takes a dim view of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, dislikes books on war by writers who never got near the fighting. Colonel Cantwell, like his creator, addresses women he likes as "daughter," was divorced from a war-correspondent wife, loves art and hunting, talks a carefully arranged language of tough-guy sentimentality...
...nutshell. When a magazine version of the book appeared in Cosmopolitan earlier this year, it raised other questions. Wasn't the novel's hero a pretty thinly disguised version of Hemingway himself? What was Hemingway trying to say about Allied commanders in World War II? And-in view of the book's flaws-was Hemingway satisfied with...